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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2004
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ845520 |
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- Electronic Book Usage in Public Libraries: A Study of User and Staff Reactions to a PDA-Based Collection Dearnley, James McKnight, Cliff Morris, Anne Public Libraries Library Services Handheld Devices Foreign Countries Books Electronic Publishing Internet Questionnaires Information Technology This article reports on one aspect of a Laser Foundation-funded research project that tested different models of e-book delivery and offered guidelines for developing e-book collections in UK public libraries. An e-book collection was offered to library users (primarily, users relying on a mobile library service) on Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices at Essex County Libraries. The article considers reaction from both library users and staff. A number of positive and negative reactions to e-books were noted, and the indicative results point to the conclusion that dedicated PDA collections still offer questionable benefits for use in public libraries. (Contains 14 notes, 2 tables and 1 figure.)